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Italian Masterpieces – Young Researchers
Imagine if you could spend two whole days in a gallery discovering the tricks of the trade of master artists such as Raphael and Michelangelo and understanding what they did…
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Download The first edition of the Quarterly Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria features an introduction by Director Daryl Lindsay and discussion of the following works: Mary, St John…
Vol. 1, no. 1, 1945
Download The first edition of the Quarterly Bulletin of the National Gallery of Victoria features an introduction by Director Daryl Lindsay and discussion of the following works: Mary, St John…
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A Renaissance reliquary collection in Halle, and its illustrated inventories
The National Gallery of Victoria owns a small, yet important, collection of incunabula and early printed books dating from the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.1See
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John Peter Russell’s Dr Will Maloney
John Peter Russell’s Dr Will Maloney, 1887, came into the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria in 1943 (fig. 1
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Doug and Mike Starn’s Sol invictus
Doug and Mike Starn’s photographic assemblage Sol invictus, 1992 (fig. 1), is a confronting reminder of the museum profession’s most feared, and ultimately indestructible, foe – the passing of
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The reception of Chinese Buddhist sculpture in the West
Two Chinese figures at the National Gallery of VictoriaIt was not until the present century that Buddhist sculpture, in common with most other forms of Chinese art, was recognised by…
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Horses bathing in the sea by Lucy Kemp-Welch (1869–1958): The painting's genesis
Begun in the summer of 1899, Horses bathing in the sea belongs to the early part of Lucy Kemp-Welch’s career (fig. 1
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An introduction to the paintings and watercolours by Julian Rossi Ashton at the National Gallery of Victoria
The artist should preach the beautiful in our commonplace and everyday existence.
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George Romney’s sketchbook in the National Gallery of Victoria: the development of a new expressive vocabulary
The National Gallery of Victoria’s sketchbook by George Romney (1734–1802)1The sketchbook is a vellum-covered book measuring 19.8 x 15.9 cm and containing sixty-nine leaves. It was acquired through the Felton Bequest̷
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The Resurrection of The descent from the Cross : an early-sixteenth-century Antwerp panel is brought out of storage
Many museum collections that have been built over a long time – collections such as that of the National Gallery of Victoria – contain works that have not been studied…
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Major large-scale etching by Lucian Freud
During a career spanning over fifty years, Lucian Freud has established a reputation as one of the foremost figurative painter-printmakers of our time.
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Hugh Ramsay’s Jeanne
Hugh Ramsay studied at the National Gallery School, Melbourne, from 1894 to 1899
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‘The heroine of all these scenes’: John Constable and the Rebow family in 1816
In the late summer of 1816, the artist John Constable was invited by his patron and friend, Major General Francis Slater Rebow, to paint a small landscape depicting the ‘Chinese Temple’ fishing lodge…
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Thumbs up or Thumbs down? The trials and tribulations of Norman Lindsay’s Pollice verso
Norman Lindsay’s rare status as an Australian artist who is also a household name is the result of numerous factors
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‘The Camera is a Dumb Recording Device’, Robert Rooney and the serial photographs in retrospect
In Christopher Nolan’s film Memento, 2000, the opening scene begins in reverse as a Polaroid photograph is vigorously shaken back out of exposure